Pernell Antown Robinson, 21, was arrested March 25 in North Carolina in connection to the Oct. 1 stabbing death of 19-year-old Taiwo Douglas-Wells near Newsome Park Elementary in Newport News.

Pernell Antown Robinson, 21, was arrested March 25 in North Carolina in connection to the Oct. 1 stabbing death of 19-year-old Taiwo Douglas-Wells near Newsome Park Elementary in Newport News. (Newport News Police Department)

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Karen Bodett sought the answer to that question in an April 2014 letter to the Gazette. She was writing about the intersection of Route 5, Greensprings Road and Centerville Road, where she had just arrived following a bad accident.

College of William and Mary

WILLIAMSBURG – Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will bring her experiences and accomplishments in both public service and academia to Williamsburg in May. The College of William and Mary on Tuesday announced she will speak at its 2015 commencement ceremony.

Williamsburg history

When English colonists began exploring America in the early 17th century, curiosity played as large a role in their drive to collect, inspect and classify its many new plants, animals and insects as the lure of adventure and the profit motive.

Before the landmark Governor’s Palace and James River plantations appeared in the early 1700s, a mostly forgotten building boom produced Virginia’s first brick dwellings. Completed in 1665, Bacon’s Castle in Surry is the oldest survivor. But many others vanished. --...

With today's announcement of a new preservation agreement protecting 65 acres of land involved in the bloody May 5, 1862 Battle of Williamsburg, there's plenty of reason to remember the importance of an early and defining clash that is too often overshadowed. Here are some past stories, a photo...

From the earliest days of British America through the Revolution, Civil War and beyond, the Virginia Peninsula has provided the setting for numerous milestones in the nation's African-American history. Here's a checklist of some of the most important. -- Mark St. John Erickson

The American and French victory over the British at Yorktown played out on such an epic scale that the massive earthworks -- restored in the 1930s -- still dominate the landscape 233 years later. But the trenches that won the Revolution on Oct. 19, 1781 aren't the only surviving physical...

WILLIAMSBURG — Signs of progress in a basketball program can be measured in standard and non-traditional means. Win-loss record, individual player recognition, conference standing. William and Mary has those areas covered.

When the final buzzer sounded on another painful defeat, Marcus Thornton didn't allow the sting to keep him from reflecting on the progress William and Mary's men's basketball program made throughout his four seasons.

Hampton University basketball players had barely settled into their seats and turned their attention to the projection screen TV in the student center ballroom when they learned their NCAA destination.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — A William and Mary women's basketball team on the rise ended its season with a fall to Hofstra 64-51 in a Colonial Athletic Association tournament quarterfinal Friday at the Show Place Arena.

BALTIMORE — William and Mary's disappointing loss in Monday's Colonial Athletic Association tournament final wasn't a conclusion, as the Tribe now prepares for a berth in the National Invitation Tournament.

BALTIMORE — Comebacks have become part of William and Mary's repertoire. Twenty points to UNC Wilmington earlier this season. Up off the mat at least three times in an epic tournament semifinal win one day earlier.

BALTIMORE — William and Mary earned the benefits that go with being the Colonial Athletic Association's No. 1 seed: an extra day to prepare, and a chance to scout Saturday's quarterfinal foe, which must play on short rest.

WILLIAMSBURG — On numerous occasions this season, William and Mary scoring sequences began with a Terry Tarpey rebound, followed by Tarpey pushing the ball upcourt in transition and passing to an open shooter for a basket.

As Hampton Roads auditions its weather for Winter Olympics consideration — speedskating on Lake Maury? Alpine skiing at Mount Trashmore? — we welcome you to the walking-wounded stage of the state's college basketball regular season.

Tom Yeager witnessed major college conferences enact historic legislation that will allow schools to provide extra benefits to scholarship athletes. When voting concluded at last month's NCAA convention, he and many others couldn't help but think: Now what?

WILLIAMSBURG — This wasn't one of those 3-point barrages of which William and Mary is capable. Ask Hofstra, all but buried at halftime after a 54-point deluge. Or James Madison, which trailed by 29 at home midway through the first half.

The final goal in Jamestown’s 8-0 boys soccer win over Kecoughtan Thursday wasn’t necessarily the most impressive in Jeff Wolons’ school-record seven-goal performance. But the nature in which it was scored adequately summed up an historic night in Wanner Stadium.

JAMES CITY — Jamestown High played the final 19 minutes and 12 seconds of Thursday's boys soccer match against Kecoughtan down a man. By the looks of the final score, an 8-0 mercy-rule win for Jamestown, you'd think it had been the opposite on the record-setting night at Wanner Stadium.

LOS ANGELES — Former NFL star Darren Sharper removed all doubt Monday that he drugged and raped women, taking the first of several legal steps to own up to sex assaults in four states that will send him to federal prison for nine years.

NEWPORT NEWS – While participating in a national indoor archery meet last weekend at James Madison University, Williamsburg's Camden Neville noticed one of his competitors seemed to be in pain after coming off of the shooting line.